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Between the Gospel and Myth: The Biblical Critique of Persecution in Cane, Sanctuary, and Beloved

The Bible, in René Girard’s reading, reveals the violent foundations of social order and critiques the scapegoat mechanism used to transform the conflictual mimesis of human culture into unanimous arbitrary victimage. Girard classifies as myth all those conventional narratives that have been used to justify foundational violence, concealing the guilt of the persecutors and the…
Martin Kevorkian
January 15, 2021